A: Fusion ioMemory solutions' persistent memory tier reduces time for concurrent search and index optimization, and warms up servers in a fraction of the time. It dramatically reduces latency by integrating directly with the CPU, providing a more direct path for data. Its high bandwidth reduces performance impact during index merging and completes automated searches on time, under any load. With Fusion ioMemory solutions, searches achieve high performance and relevance even with growing data sets.

Q: Are Fusion ioMemory solutions difficult to implement?

A: Fusion ioMemory products are drop-in solutions that assimilate quickly and painlessly with block-based search applications. Once system administrators install the Fusion ioMemory ioDrive® cards into the server, they can choose to place indexes, temp files, logs, and/or active data onto the ioDrive devices.

Q: How do Fusion ioMemory products affect the reliability of my search system?

A: In addition to their own enterprise reliability features, Fusion ioMemory products improve search system reliability by reducing server footprint. This makes systems much easier to manage and greatly reduces the number of failure points, spinning disks, network cables, and switches.

Q: Can I achieve real-time search with Fusion ioMemory products?

A: Yes. Fusion ioMemory products reduce time for concurrent search, index optimization, and latency, enabling users to achieve near real-time search by committing and optimizing their indexes continuously. Documents become visible seconds after being added.

Fusion ioMemory solutions have no moving parts, making it a nonvolatile and persistent media for data. Because Fusion ioMemory solutions reduce the amount of RAM that each search server needs, expensive upgrades become unnecessary—system architects will never need to add shelves of performance storage. With Fusion ioMemory products, indexes have room to grow without adding cost.

A: Tests performed by Microsoft on its FAST search server show that Fusion ioMemory products extend more queries per second before latency impact than RAID disk-based systems. Lucene benchmarking also shows that Fusion ioMemory solutions provide five times faster search completion than spindle-based RAID 0, with Fusion ioMemory solutions reaching between 7,000 and 14,000 search requests per second.

The performance results discussed herein are based on testing and use of Fusion ioMemory products. Results and performance may vary according to configurations and systems, including drive capacity, system architecture and applications.